Hang on, could we hav to a clarification as to what was Kabutos role in canon? I was under the impression that Danzo didn't realise he'd been turned. If Kabuto was going out of the way and doing things against Root orders he'd get caught pretty quickly.
To the best of my understanding, it goes like this:
- Danzō decides to get rid of Kabuto and his foster mother (who at his point is also a Root spy), and successfully pits them against each other. Kabuto survives.
- Orochimaru, a Root member at the time, knows all this, turns up as Kabuto is still reeling, and recruits him for himself
- Presumably Kabuto fakes his own death so Danzō doesn't realise he survived the above
- Orochimaru gives Kabuto a new backstory that allows him to become a Leaf genin and enter the Chūnin Exams
- Danzo and Root somehow never notice that Kabuto is wandering around Leaf, despite his not having changed his name or appearance in any way
I love these kinds of spine-tingling moments!
All credit for that line goes to
@OliWhail. You can see his original concept for Hazō's speech (which helped me greatly) in the plan.
Emo-Tensai? A fearsome technique. It summons an undead ninja who gives speeches about how life is pain.
As it happens, "tensai" is Japanese for "genius".
Huh. If someone suspects you're lying, and rolls deception against you, but you're telling the truth, how is that represented mechanically? Deliberately crit-failing your 'deception' roll?
I don't think you can deliberately make yourself sound more truthful (except through
successful use of Deception when you're lying). If anything, it may be that if you beat their roll, they will be unable to tell whether you're lying or not, which will ironically make them more suspicious of you than if they were confident they could see right through you.
I meant Lee having a crippled chakra system. That's right, since he can't use ninjutsu, right? Neji is there to verify our claim.
Common fanon fallacy. Canonically, Lee's chakra system is perfectly fine; he just
really sucks at ninjutsu.
A general question: I've been getting feedback saying this is one of the best chapters I've written, and I don't entirely understand why. I do think this chapter came out well, but half of it is Inoue recapping things the reader already knows in a fairly dry manner, and the other half is a speech also recapping things the reader already knows (as OOC knowledge about the players' choice of motivations for Hazō). What is it people like so much about it?
